Cool stuff.

Must resist urge to post to slickdeals

MikeC wrote:Regarding the 65W Trinity parts -- apparently in short supply, but AMD reps say they will try to get them for us... hopefully sooner than later.

Yeah I read this elsewhere also. These look like very interesting parts. A10-5700!

Excellent review Lawrence. The balance of topics covered is perfect for SPCR. I especially appreciate the value analysis that I've seen on these reviews here, including the CPU+mobo price, price per performance, etc. (and nice touch having one rating corrected for GPU). This is something lacking in ...

This line just... grinds my gears. True to form, the AVADirect Quiet Gaming System is, indeed, quiet. I can't verify the certification by SPCR; most sound meters don't read below 30dB, so testing to see if those figures are accurate just isn't possible . No, just because you aren't able to, doesn't...

Fantastic to see a new fan roundup and great to see these brands in there that have been talked about a lot but never had serious testing. Thanks SPCR! The more fans the merrier by the way Everyone wants to see how their fan compares.

MikeC wrote:If you don't mind living a bit dangerously, the tip of the heatpipes caps touching or even pressing a bit against the side cover should not be detrimental -- the extra pressure and heat conduction might even help w/cooling.

Plus it would be more secure when moving the case

Sounds great! Go Corsair!

and very interesting from Noctua... but they were already expensive so I hope they know their market. They need to make rack device fans quieter!

Great review and very cool card. It's awesome that Sapphire continues to build these kinds of video cards. I might get this for my HTPC/Living Room Gaming PC but I already have a 5770 in it. This would definitely save some power but I have been keeping it off lately anyway to save money. It's also i...

Wow I've been a forum member since August 2003 (and lurked when I was in college before that - you need to have a quiet computer when you're sleeping right next to it!) Like Captain Spaulding, I came to learn and contributed occasionally when I could. There was nothing even close to this site when I...

Here here, 140mm fan roundup with review site winning methodology and measurements! :) Yeah, nice list BD. The Fractal Design would be nice too since they already have them from the case reviews. Lian-li has a 140mm fan, but I don't know if it's a rebadge. Masscool has a couple as well (ball bearing...

Hey BDBrot, I appreciate the note and glad I helped someone. There didn't seem like much info out there about 140mm fans so I figured I'd add a little. Let us know how it goes for you with your choice.

Analog has infinite resolution, right?

Wow, you're kidding, what a ridiculous trend. I too plan to get a 1920x1200 monitor some time.

If Bulldozer CPUs do work in AM3+ boards that will be excellent.

You mean AM3 (not plus)

Yeah definitely need to include mobo prices like that SPCR article did. Anybody have a actual recent Sandy Bridge build with a 2500 or something? Here's my recent AMD, purchased Jan 18: CPU - AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz - $130.95 on ebay (shipped from newegg) Mobo - ASUS M4A89TD PRO USB3/AM3 AMD 89...

At first I thought - kind of strange the way they're matching those up. They are different CPUs, less performance per core, but more cores on the X6. Not bad, actually I think they're good and they still have the best price/performance at certain prices. But you can't argue with their checklist as i...

Excellent review. I've read other Brazos articles and you guys just have the best, all articles really :) My buddy just purchased the HP dm1z laptop with the AMD E-350 and he's a big fan. His thoughts after I showed him the Anandtech review : People that bought it with the SSD or put one in got near...

Here's a Tom's Hardware Guide article about the OCZ Vertex 2 34nm vs 25nm also http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ocz-vertex-2-25nm-ssd,2867.html Pretty big difference in I/O performance and major difference in uncompressible sequential write (like halved). But good to see that in the real world te...

Here's what I have in one of my computers -
from newegg: OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
I didn't match it with the label but I imagine that's it. Purchased it January 11th so hopefully 34nm.

OCZ closed that thread on their forums that was linked in your last blog post I was going to see if the Storage Review thread was linked there yet.

Yeah, even if they made it so they came out even compared to how they do it now, they wouldn't reduce the price for the majority of users. They'd have a required plan minimum so the people not using much would still pay for more than their fair share, similar to smartphone data plans.

I recently finished building my computer and I checked out the fans a bit so I'll relay a little info here. I have an Antec Three Hundred case and I bought a couple Fractal Design fans including a 140mm and Nexuses. I can heartily recommend the Fractal Design fans for low noise (and low airflow) tho...

"The widespread use of bandwidth caps in Canada is a function of a highly concentrated market where a handful of ISPs (literally—Bell, Rogers, Shaw, Telus, and Videotron) control so much of the market that they can impose wildly unpopular measures without much fear of losing customers," It's always...

I could say yay since I just built a new AMD 890FX system but I won't. Kudos to Intel for being on the ball and taking the hit. It's better for everyone (except maybe AMD) that they get it out of the way now. Hopefully the early adopters (which could have easily been me) will get what they need pain...

Good info. I have Windows 7 on it now. Once I got the HDMI working properly, I actually didn't notice much difference between using VGA to VGA vs HDMI to HDMI but I didn't take any time to compare closely. Of course digital to digital is always better than lots of conversions.

Maybe this is newsworthy for SPCR -

AMD Llano APU to Get Dual-GPU Technology Similar to Hybrid CrossFire
http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Llan ... 9740.shtml

sounds good to me!

I tried using Game Mode on my tv and found out that option is grayed out in the menu when connected to the PC Input (VGA). I'm guessing this means that it's enabled when using PC Input. I'm planning to continue using the VGA now since I don't have enough HDMI ports to use easily. It looks really goo...

I'm also wondering what you mean by the top fan frame change. I kind of like having the lack of fan grills on top. Sure things might fall in but it looks pretty badass for sure. Maybe use those standard wire grills (since they have best airflow) and spray paint them gloss black :) Definitely nice th...

Thank you for including the motherboard cost. Quality article, and definitely tailored to our needs more than other review/benchmark articles.

Western Digital Hybrid Hard Drive in the Works? If so I bet it will have a lot more flash than the Seagate hybrid :) What's going to happen to Seagate I wonder? They've lost a ton of market share, don't have flash/SSD products... wait they do have SSD?? - http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/e...